Published in 1993, this is probably the iconic edition of Pendragon for many people, being the only one available for a decade. This is the 4th edition (oddly there was never a published 2nd edition), published first by Chaosium and then later by Green Knight Publishing. I'll probably read it and post about it at some point, but it cut out vast swathes of character creation and it's not what I think of when I think of Pendragon. The game eventually found its way into the hands of White Wolf, who published a 5th edition: It is the brainchild of Greg Stafford, who is also the creator ofĪs well as a bunch of other good games Glorantha is probably his greatest creation (and someone should post about it), but Pendragon is, in his words, his masterpiece. That actually makes me feel really old so I'm not going to dwell on it. Pendragon has a long history its first edition came out in 1985. It is also the game that was used for literally the best campaign I have ever been a part of, which, fair warning, may color my impressions a bit. Which is good, because that's the only thing it's expressly trying to model. There are a lot of things that Pendragon doesn't do well.īut there's one thing it does very, very well - and that is to model the adventures of a group of Knights in Arthurian Britain. There re a lot of things that Pendragon does poorly to my mind - its magic system, while thematic, is painful to use in actual play, and large-scale battles are abstracted to a vast degree, and the setting and in some cases the system is chauvinistic despite its best efforts to address the issue, and so on and so forth. It is not "a game where you can act chivalrous," it's a game where chivalry is literally baked into the rules. , that magical, never-quite-real land of King Arthur, the greatest ruler and best king of the world, of Lancelot du Lac, the world's greatest knight and his affair with Queen Guenevere that doomed it all, of Gawain and Tristram and Galahad, of the Questing Beast and the Holy Grail, of Merlin and Morgaine la Fey, and of Camelot, the shining city on the hill that has inspired mankind for centuries. Pendragon is a game about Arthurian Britain - the Britain of
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